Thoughts
On systems, engineering, and making complex things simple.

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Karpathy's AutoResearch: How an ML Tool Became a Marketing Optimizer
Andrej Karpathy's AutoResearch runs 100 AI experiments overnight on one GPU. Marketers adapted it for landing page optimization — 56% to 92% pass rate for $15.
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TurboQuant Tanked Memory Stocks. History Says Buy the Dip
Google's TurboQuant wiped billions from memory chip stocks. SK Hynix fell 6%, Micron 7%, SanDisk 11%. But every efficiency breakthrough in computing has expanded demand, not shrunk it.
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TurboQuant: How Google Cut LLM Memory Usage 6x Without Losing Accuracy
Google's TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value caches to 3 bits with zero accuracy loss. No retraining, no fine-tuning. Accepted at ICLR 2026.
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